The large, floating leaves offer a perfect resting spot for adult dragonflies, while the flowers add a pop of color to your water garden. To grow water lilies, plant them in containers filled with ...

A garden with a diversity of plants will serve that need quite well because the flowers will attract a variety of tiny insects on which the dragonflies can feed. A benefit to gardening for ...

Pesticides will kill the tiny insects that dragonflies love to eat, and they’ll have to search elsewhere for food. While a perfectly manicured lawn and pristine flower beds may be appealing to ...

But how do they know which flowers to go to? Honeybees ... This is the case with some species of dragonflies, meaning they are able to see infinitely more colors than the human brain can comprehend.

Dragonflies in the Southeastern United States, according to an earlier study, hunt bees. If pollen is a limiting factor for flower propagation, a bee shortage reduces plants’ success.

“And the water environment is good for them as a laying environment and also the types of flowers that can be around and also the grasses, the dragonflies like to use those long dune grasses to ...